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Patented June 17, 1890.

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CHARLES S. SCHENCK, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

MEANS FOR CONVEYING OR TRANSFERRING COAL, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.43o,23e,1ated June17,1890.

Application led October 29, 1888. Serial Nox 289,424. (No model.)v

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. SCHENCK, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMeans or Apparatus for Delivering or Transferring Coal, Grain, Sand, orother similar Material, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention is an improvementin means or apparatus for delivering coal,grain, sand, or other material from vessels or other depositories, andis designed more particularlyto provide a simple and comparativelyinexpensive .apparatus by which cargoes of coal, grain,

sand, or other material may be discharged at various points of deliveryor transferred in elevators or other structures, or by which oceansteamers or other vessels may be loaded or supplied with coal at a muchless expense than has heretofore been possible, and whereby suchsubstances as those above named may be handled with economy of time andlabor.

The invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangementof parts disclosed in the following speciiication, of which theaccompanying drawings form a part, and in which similar letters ofreference represent like or equivalent parts wherever found throughoutthe several views.

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a coal-barge providedwith my improve# ment. Fig.'2 is a top plan view of one of thevconveyers and elevators employed by me. Fig. 3 1s a transverse verticalsection on the line a: a: of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view of certain detailsof construction; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 'y y of Fig. l,looking toward the bow, and on an enlarged scale.

Although I have herein shown and described my invention as applied to abarge for the 'purpose of discharging coal therefrom, it issprocket-wheels D3, journaled at the angles of the troughs, each of saidtroughs forming` as shown, a continuous inclosed passage, in which theendless conveyer moves. For the purpose of illustrating these parts theside wall of the trough in Fig. l is removed.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, E represents two elevators consisting ofdouble shafts E and E2, united at each end, which elevators l correspondwith the troughs in the bottom of the barge, with which theycommunicate, as shown at G, and each of these elevators is provided witha conveyer similar to those within the chutes or troughs B, which arearranged to travel over suitable sprocket-wheels D3, placed at each endof the elevators. A portion of the side walls of one of the elevators inFig. l is removed, so as to show the conveyer, and the sprocket-wheel isshown in dotted lines. The elevators may extend to any desired height,and may besupported in any preferred manner, the best arrangement beingprobably that shown in the drawings, wherein the connection between theelevators and the conveyers in the bottom of the barge is made near thestern, the elevator being then carried forward and upward over the bowlto the desired height.

Attached to the discharge end of each of the elevators is a spout ortube D', which may be so connected as to admit of its being swungaround, as shown in dotted lines,

whereby the coal or other substance may be A IOO longitudinalcompartments, each converging to the troughs B, thus causing the entireload to gravitate toward these troughs, which are provided with openingsin the top controlled by gates K, each of which is provided with arack-bar K on the under side thereof, which is engaged by a gear-wheelL, journal'ed beneath the hoor at the top of the trough and operated bya pinion through the agency of a shaft L2, which extends above the deck,and is provided with a hand-wheel at the top, by meansof which the shaftmay be turned toopen or close the gate. These gates are arranged to moveupon rollers k, or arranged to form a movable support for'the gates inany desired manner. It is obvious that the gates K anywhere along thebottom of the vessel may be opened to discharge the cargo into thetrough B from any particular part of the barge or from all parts of itat once, as may seem desirable or necessary; and it is also evident thatthe barge may be divided transversely into separate compartments, eachof which may be filled with a different substance, which may be unloadedseparately, if desired.

The conveyors and elevators will be operated by a belt M, which runsfrom the drivewheel M of the engine, by which power is supplied to apulley N upon the main shaft N', these two latter parts being shown moreclearly in Fig. 5. Mounted upon the main shafts N is a gear-wheel N2,which engages with a gear-wheel O on the counter-shaft O, and upon thiscounter-shaft is also mounted two clutch-pinions 0 o, which engage,respectively, with corresponding gear-wheels o o', mounted upon shaftso2 o2, by which sprocket-wheels D D in the bottom of the elevator-shaftsare operated. The clutchpinions o o are operated or thrown in and out ofconnection with the gear-wheels o o by means of levers O2 O2, and bythis means either one or both of the elevators may be operated atpleasure. All the parts described in this paragraph, except belt M anddrivevwheel M are shown in Fig. 5 in dotted lines.

There are also mounted upon the main shaft N clutch-pinions P P, whichengage with corresponding gear-wheels P P,mounted on shafts P2 P2, bywhich the sprocket-wheels D D in the aft end of the conveyers areoperated; and, as in the case of the elevatorshafts above described, theclutch-pinions P P may be thrown in or out of connection with thegear-wheels P P by means of. the levers R R, and thus either or both ofthe conveyers in the troughs B may be operated when desired.

The lower end of each of the elevator-shafts is in communication wit-hone of the troughs B, as hereinbefore stated, the end of theelevator-shaft being placed just within the trough, as shown in Figs. 3and 5, and the bottom and side of the trough being cut away and providedwith a passage, as G, which empties into the base of the elevator-shaft.

The operation is as follows: The barge being filled with coal or othermaterial, the gates K are opened by turning the hand-wheels L3 at thetop of the shafts L2,` the gates moving easily upon the rollers 7c. Theconveyers and elevators are then put in motion, the conveyers in thetroughs B moving in the direction of the arrows S S and those in theelevatorshafts in the direction of the arrows V V. The coal is movedrapidly along the lower part of the trough B till it comes to thepassages G, communicating with the elevatorshafts, when it drops intothe bottom of said shafts, and is taken up by the conveyers within theelevator-shafts and carried to the top thereof, where it is injectedinto the spout or tube D from which it is automatically discharged,either at the front, sides, or rear of the barge, into any receptacleprepared for it and at almost any desired altitude.

It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the use of twoconveyer-troughs and two elevator-shafts, as it is evident that three ormore :might be employed without departing from the spirit of myinvention, it being only necessary to alter the gearing so as tocorrespond with the number of conveyer-troughs and elevator-shaftsemployed. Neither is my improvement limited to any particular form ofconveyer, the chain-links c and plates c .being employed only forpurposes of illustration and description. It is probable that a bucketconveyer or carrier would be preferable in the elevator-shafts to thejform shown, as it would not be so liable to clog while lifting coal,grain, sand, or other loose, lumpy, or granular material on asteeply-inclined trough, while for the flight-conveyer the form shown isprobably the best.

In my Patent, No. 424,937, dated April l, 1890, I describe, illustrate,and claim certain devices for opening and closing gates leading from thehold of a vessel to a trough running along its bottom. In thisapplication I do not claim what is claimed in said patent.

Having fully described my invention, its construction and operation, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A storage-vessel for coaland other substances having a series of troughs, each constituting aninclosed passage approximately rectangular in outline and having onepart thereof along the floor of the hold, in combination with a seriesof endless conveyers traveling in said passages, a series of inclinedfloors I-I, dividing the lower part of the hold into hopper-likecompartments and guiding their contents into said troughs, a series ofgates opening and closing communication between said compartments andsaid troughs, respectively, a series of endless inclosed elevatorssupplied by said conveyers, gearing for driving said elevators andconveyers, and a series of spouts supplied by said elevators and servingto discharge the coal where needed, substantially as set forth. l

2. The combination, in an apparatus for IOO IIO

conveying or transferring coal or other substances, of a storage-vesselhaving longitudinal hopper-like depressions in its bottom, a Series ofight-conveyer troughs, as B, provided with endless conveyers, a seriesof elevators, as E, consisting of separate shafts E and E2, united asshown, and provided with an endless oonveyer, said elevators andconveyers being in communication and provided with sprocket-Wheels, bywhich the endless convey'ers are carried, an engine andoonnecting-gearing consisting of a main shaft, as N, provided with agear-Wheel N2 and oluteh-pinions P P, operated by levers R R, thegear-Wheels P P', in connection with which the eluteh-pinions P Poperate, said gear-wheels P being mounted upon the shafts P2, by whichthe sprocket-Wheels D ofthe fiight-oonveyers are operated, and thegearof New York and State of-New York, this 245thl day of October. A. D.1888.

CHARLES S. SCHENCK.

Witnesses:

DANIEL E. DELAVAN, D. ELWELL.

